Joseph Earl Thomas

Leviathan Beach (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A wild and wildly original debut story collection that explores the present and future, violence and justice, the fantastic and the everyday, from Joseph Earl Thomas, "a writer of incredible gifts" (Justin Torres) who brought us Sink and God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer. LEVIATHAN BEACH is a sharp and unforgettable collection of stories delving into the subtleties of family and community, war, labor, race and class in America, and the shared prospects of biological life on this planet. With brilliant, often humorous prose, Joseph Earl Thomas approaches his subject matter with scalpel-like precision, revealing profound truths and posing incisive questions at the level of the speculative and the hyper-real. In "Cold War Kirby," a brother is tasked with caring for his younger sister as their fragile family life crumbles. A son goes to dangerous lengths to make his ineffectual father proud in "The Gorilla." Against the backdrop of global conflict, an anthropologist in "Resephon" seems to be the country's last hope in stopping unpredictable and deadly attacks, if only his commanders would listen. Both solemn and searching, scathing and indignant, Thomas approaches the multi-headed Leviathan of the present with great curiosity about life and little respect for mere tolerance, asking what it means to dream of a better future when the world is crumbling around you.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538741030
• Artikelnr.: 72319747

Autorenporträt

Joseph Earl Thomas is the author of Sink, a memoir, the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, and the story collection Leviathan Beach (Grand Central, 2025). His prose, poetry and criticism has been published in The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Dilettante Army, and The New York Times Book Review. Sink was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame's MFA program in prose, he earned his PhD in English at The University of Pennsylvania and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College. At The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, he also teaches courses in Black Studies, Poetics, Queer Theory, and Video Games.